18 points jcofai | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source

Building is super cheap now but standing out among all AI noise has become so hard. I am seeing barely any response to my email and LinkedIn messages. These are not generic messages. They are personalized.

I am hearing similar stories from people I know. May be it is my network bias. I am building following on LinkedIn but I honestly hate it. I hate the facade of putting of expert hat and writing in stupid one sentence per line style.

The bar for customer acquisition is so high right now.

What can I do to get first 10 customers?

Please suggest for someone who don’t have much of a network.

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Aro_oj ◴[13 Jul 25 16:15 UTC] No.44551453[source]▶

>>44544542 (OP) #

The first few customers always have to be your friends or acquaintances. Or in some cases you have to be your own customer to get that "10 sold" tag on your site You know that RL strategy that works for sellers when they make you park their car in front of their cart to trick people into believing you are their customer/buyer.

Ask HN: How do you get first 10 customers?